Oil and Gas Waste Governance : State Politics of Induced Seismicity in Ohio and Oklahoma (Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy)

Mahafza, Zachary/ Fisk, Jonathan/ Aistrup, Joseph A.

Routledge（2025/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 126 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032797182
• DDC分類 338.27280973

Full Description

In Oil and Gas Waste Governance, Zachary Mahafza, Joseph A. Aistrup, Jonathan M. Fisk, and Lorraine W. Wolf tell the story of unconventional oil and gas production, earthquakes, and how they both relate to the much broader conversation centering on private property, energy production, and the role of science within the public policy process, and environmental sustainability.

Utilizing a unique national-level dataset that includes human-induced earthquakes associated with oil and gas development between 2006 and 2018, the book combines insights on focusing/tipping events, media, geoscience, and state-choice to develop and test a new model of event-driven policy change. Examining the politics of induced seismicity at the national level as well as in Ohio and Oklahoma, the authors demonstrate how event severity and frequency interact with political and social considerations and, in turn, contribute to administrative decision-making. Oil and Gas Waste Governance offers a much-needed examination of seismicity in Public Administration and Public Policy.

Contents

Introduction. Chapter 1: Waste and the Governance of Oil and Gas. Chapter 2: Which Events Lead to Change? Chapter 3: The National Picture. Chapter 4: Oil and Gas Wastes in Ohio. Chapter 5: Oil and Gas Wastes in Oklahoma. Chapter 6: The Landscape Going Forward and Lessons Learned